Charlotte battle New England for praise and triumph.
- New England have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Major League Soccer
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the CONCACAF Champions League. That game was also an away game, at Pumas UNAM. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Charlotte form and stats
The Major League Soccer statistics at home this season for Charlotte are 0-0-1 (wins-draws-losses). With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Charlotte to get some points in this home game.
In their previous game, the manager Ramírez led his Charlotte to a defeat away at Atlanta United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Bank of America Stadium. Midfield player Bender got a match rating of 8.34 in that game, the max score being 10. Bender served one assist, hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 23 successful passes (of 26 total).
Preceding that match was a defeat to LA Galaxy (0-1).Charlotte has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
New England form and stats
One match played away so far in the Major League Soccer for New England and it was a tie. Last season the statistics for their away games were 10 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses from 17 games.
Two away matches in a row for New England, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-3 against Pumas UNAM in the CONCACAF Champions League.
Preceding that, the 2-3 home loss versus Real Salt Lake.New England have the goal stats of 2-2 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Armour 1 goals |   B. Bye 1 goals |  E. Boateng 1 goals |
Charlotte missing players
New England missing players
| Charlotte | New England | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 67% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 67% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.7 | 3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 9 | 6 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 5.7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.7 | 5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 17 | 12.7 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 33% |
| 15.7 | 20 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 16 | 12.3 |
| 6 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 6 | 4.7 |
- New England have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Major League Soccer
